Our country didn’t pass the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act or Medicaid & Medicare because one person was elected President.

We passed those policies because of people-led movements.

It’s sad to see the Sanders campaign end, but 1 election was never the thing that was going to get us where we need to be anyways.

Even with a Sanders Whitehouse, it still would have been the time to organize, strategize and movement build.

It still is.

There is an appetite for progressive policies right now that is unlike anything I’ve seen in my 33-year-old life. What feels possible today is fundamentally different than just 5 yrs ago. It’s a moment—that if we’re serious about making that change a reality—we need to seize.

And what will be possible under a Biden presidency is fundamentally different than what is possible under Trump.

With Trump it’s fighting to prevent the worst policies from happening. Under Biden it’s fighting for the best policies.

One of my favorite lessons from organizing training is that you always work towards the world as it should be but you operate in the world as it is.

If you are only willing to operate in the world as it should be you can’t get anything done. Because it’s not reality.

The progressive arm of the Dem Party has more power right now than it’s had in a long time. We can decide that we hate Biden, we hate the DNC and just disengage. We can even pretend that’s a higher moral ground when everything about the urgency of this moment tells us it’s not.

Or we can use that power to continue to push the party left.